Jack Herriot, one of the founders of the CS department at Stanford,
passed away on Sunday, March 16, 2003. He was 87 years old.
"He was responsible for bringing George Forsythe to Stanford.
After Forsythe's death, he was acting chairman of the CS department.
He was a quiet man but very friendly and supportive." Gene Golub.

Dr. Zbigniew I. Woznicki, Head of Research Group, Institute of
Atomic Energy, Poland has been elected as a member to the
European Academy of Sciences with the citation "for an
outstanding and lasting contribution to applied and computational
mathematics".
Election to the Academy is considered to be one of the highest honors
that can be accorded to a scientist and engineer.
Congratulations, Zbigniew.

I have posted an update to the collection of freely available software
for the solution of linear algebra problems. The updated list can be
found at: http://www.netlib.org/utk/people/JackDongarra/la-sw.html
Regards,
Jack

In the discretization of the problem I'm studying I get a matricial system of
differential equations in the form:

dX/dt = A X B

where A and B are square matrices. I'm sure these problems appear in lots of
fields of interest, but I've been unable to find any information about their
solution. Could anybody tell me which would be the (matricial) solution of
these problems, or how can it be approximated? Comments with references to
fields where these equations are common will also be specially helpful.

New exercises included in each chapter. Written by a world expert on
Runge-Kutta methods. Didactic aspects of the book have been enhanced by
interspersing the text with exercises.
Bibliography updated to be as exhaustive as possible.

"This book is...an indispensible reference for any researcher."
American Mathematical Society on the First Edition.

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This book presents a modern continuum mechanics and mathematical
framework to study shell physical behaviors, and to formulate and
evaluate finite element procedures. With a view towards the synergy that
results from physical and mathematical understanding, the book focuses
on the fundamentals of shell theories, their mathematical bases and
finite element discretizations. The complexity of the physical behaviors
of shells is analysed, and the difficulties to obtain uniformly optimal
finite element procedures are identified and studied. Some modern finite
element methods are presented for linear and nonlinear analyses.

EURESCO Conference on Advanced Environments and Tools for High
Performance Computing and GIS
Albufeira, Portugal, 14-19 June 2003
(sponsored by the European Commission, Research DG, Human Potential
Programme, High Level Scientific Conferences)

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF COMPUTATIONAL METHODS IN SCIENCES AND
ENGINEERING (ICCMSE 2003)
Kastoria, Greece
September 12-16, 2003
http://www.uop.gr/~iccmse/ or http://kastoria.teikoz.gr/~iccmse/

In the past decades many significant insights have been made in several
areas of Computational Methods in Sciences and
Engineering. New problems and methologies have appeared. There is
permanently a need in these fields for the advancement
of information exchange. This undoubtedly beneficial practice of
interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary interactions should
be expressed by an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary conference on
Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering.
ICCMSE 2003 aims at playing the above role and for this reason the aim
of the conference is to bring together computational
scientists and engineers from several disciplines in order to share
methods, methologies and ideas.

(ICMS), and incorporating the twelfth Scottish Computational Mathematics
Symposium (SCMS). The meeting is supported by EPSRC and LMS. The first day
will follow the usual SCMS format of five invited lectures, and the second
and third days will involve a mixture of invited and contributed talks.

CONFERENCE THEMES:

Mathematical modelling and numerical simulation play a major role in many
important medical applications. The meeting will be organised around the
two interlinked themes of THE VASCULAR AND PULMONARY SYSTEMS and SOFT
TISSUE MECHANICS. The purpose is to bring together people who work on
mathematical modelling, numerical analysis, simulation and direct medical
applications related to these areas, and to act as a focus to stimulate
further research and development of even more realistic medical
simulations.

The Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) opened its
doors with its first annual program during 1982-83 and now, tens of
thousands of scientific visits later, is in its 20th year. In
celebration of this event we are holding a two-day conference featuring
overview talks by leading practitioners in fields of mathematics and
applications where the IMA has played a major role. These talks will be
aimed at a broad and diverse mathematical audience.

The conference will consist of overview talks by leading practitioners
in fields of mathematics and applications where the IMA has played a
major role. These talks will be aimed at a broad and diverse
mathematical audience.

The conference banquet will be held at 6:00 on Friday, June 6. In
addition there will be an open house and reception at the IMA starting
at 4:00 on Thursday June 5 and Charles Peskin will deliver a lecture
geared at the general public entitled "Secrets of the Heart
Revealed--by Mathematics and Computer Simulation" on Thursday at 7:00.

For more information and to register for the conference, please
go to http://www.ima.umn.edu/ima20 .
** YOU MUST REGISTER BY MAY 22 TO PARTICIPATE **

The conference will be devoted to the 60th anniversary of Raytcho Lazarov.

This is the last call for late participants. Please, contact as soon as possible
the conference secretary and/or the organizers of the LSSC'03 Special Sessions.
Although the related deadlines are over, there are still some few free slots
in the scientific program.

This is a reminder that the deadline for early registration for ISMP
2003 is April 30.

We are happy to announce that all contributions from invited speakers
have been received - these constitute a very interesting volume, which
will be part of the conference material for each participant.

It is possible to follow the registrations for ISMP 2003 on-line:
http://www.ismp2003.dk/

Looking forward to seeing you in Copenhagen,
Jens Clausen and J=F8rgen Tind

The Mathematical Programming Society, the Technical University of
Denmark, and the University of Copenhagen announce:

ISMP 2003
Copenhagen, Denmark
August 18 - 22, 2003
www.ismp2003.dk

The 18th International Symposium on Mathematical Programming takes
place August 18-22, 2003 at the Technical University of Denmark in
cooperation with University of Copenhagen. It is the main scientific
event of the Mathematical Programming Society held every 3 years on
behalf of the Society. The Symposium attracts more than one thousand
researchers from all areas of mathematical programming. At the
symposium homepage www.ismp2003.dk you find all information including
the list of plenary and semiplenary speakers.

A proceedings volume sponsored by Springer Verlag with a contribution
from each speaker will be published as a special issue of Mathematical
Programming and will be distributed to all participants at the
symposium.

The scientific program will be complemented by an attractive social
program: At ISMP 2003 you will have the opportunity to taste the
traditional "City Hall" pancakes served at the City Hall and to
participate in a cocktail party in the Celebration Hall at the
University of Copenhagen. The conference dinner will take place at the
famous Base Camp restaurant in the former naval area of the city,
recently rebuilt into one of the main cultural centers of the city.
Additional activities will be arranged in the scenic surroundings of
the Campus.

The homepage provides information about registration, travel, and
accomodation, and offers possibilities for web-based abstract
submission of contributed presentations as well as organized sessions.

100 Danish Kroner (DKK) was equlivalent to approximately $ 14, and
approximately 13 Euros on April 4, 2003.

Special registration pricing including a one year membership of MPS is
also available. See the homepage for details. In addition to the
traditional congress material as booklet of abstracts and bag,
registration includes the volume of invited lectures, admission to the
opening reception, daily bag lunches, and transportation for the
entire week.

We invite you to participate in the event and to submit an individual
abstract or propose an organized session on some special topic of
general interest. Each such session will consist of three talks. The
submission procedure for both abstracts and sessions is described at
the homepage: Just click on the "How to use this homepage" button.

Jens Clausen (chair), Technical University of Denmark
J=F8rgen Tind (cochair), University of Copenhagen
Hans Bruun Nielsen, Technical University of Denmark
David Pisinger, University of Copenhagen
Martin Zachariasen, University of Copenhagen

Important dates:

April 30, 2003: Deadline for early registration.
May 31, 2003: Deadline for submission of abstracts.
August 18 - 22: ISMP 2003

A programme for the meeting on Sparse Matrices and the Grid has just been
placed on our web site

http://www.cerfacs.fr/algor/Seminars/StGirons2/stGirons2003.html

This meeting is being held in St Girons, in the Pyreneean department of
Ariege, France from 10th to 13th June 2003.

There will also be the possibility of poster sessions.

Prospective attendees should register now at the above web site. Registration
will be open (on a first-come first-served) basis until May 8th. This
deadline is imposed by the hotels and so should be considered strict.

There is no registration fee as such. The cost for the whole meeting,
arriving on Monday leaving on Friday (including meals, hotel, local
transportation) is 300 euros.
Reduced rates are possible for shorter stays or for people willing to
share a room. The range of tariffs is given on our Web site.
The fee also includes transportation between Toulouse and St Girons.

The Vienna University of Technology is seeking an outstanding
candidate to take up a permanent or fixed-term professorship
position in computational mathematics. Candidates should have
an international research reputation in an area of computational
mathematics related to one or more of the current research
activities of the Institute for Applied Mathematics and Numerical
Analysis (http://www.anum.tuwien.ac.at/).

The successful candidate will be expected to make a significant
contribution to the institute's research output, to provide leadership
for researchers and postgraduate students, and to undertake an
appropriate teaching and administrative load.

The applicant must meet the following requirements:

(1) an Austrian or equivalent foreign terminal academic degree
in the field under consideration,
(2) an outstanding academic track record in research and teaching,
(3) pedagogic and didactic skills,
(4) leadership abilities,
(5) international working experience in the field of research.

The closing date for applications is April 28, 2003.

The Vienna University of Technology is committed to increase
female employment in leading scientist positions. Qualified female
applicants are expressly encouraged to apply and will be given
preference when equally qualified.

Applications including a detailed curriculum vitae, list of
publications,
and copies of the five most outstanding publications of the applicant
should be sent to the TNI Dekanat, Getreidemarkt 9, A-1060 Vienna,
Austria (Europe).

The official German version of this announcement can be found in
http://info.tuwien.ac.at/histu/mb/02-03/mb-s-18.html.